Upland ComSci
Upland ComSci is a web-based IT financial management solution for organizations that need to manage IT costs and make them visible to business owners.
What Upland ComSci is
Upland ComSci is a web-based IT financial management solution for organizations that need to manage IT costs and make them visible to business owners. It provides service costing, sub-ledger detail and consumption-based chargeback, and reports application total cost of ownership to support portfolio management and rationalization. For cloud and SaaS spending, ComSci consolidates cost and usage data from multiple providers. Dashboards, reports and line-item details support monitoring, cost-driver analysis, showback and chargeback. Its analytics cover product costs, unit costs, business-unit demand, application costs and cloud usage. Teams can identify underused cloud instances for consolidation or retirement and spot overutilized resources. ComSci also supports budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation and scenario planning. It integrates with corporate reporting systems including Oracle Hyperion, IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects. The solution is intended for IT finance managers and teams in small and large enterprises. Its listed price is available on request.
Good
- Supports budgeting and forecasting.
- Provides showback and chargeback detail.
- Consolidates cost and usage data across cloud and SaaS providers.
- Integrates with named corporate reporting systems.
- Helps identify underused and overutilized cloud resources.
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request.
- The listed platform is web only.
Who it suits
ComSci suits IT finance teams that need service costing, cost allocation or cloud and SaaS cost visibility. It is described for both small and large enterprises.
Verdict
ComSci brings service, application and cloud costs into an IT financial management solution with reporting and allocation tools. Organizations will need to request pricing to assess the commercial fit.
The facts
Each one read from Upland ComSci's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analytics
- The cloud cost solution provides dashboards and reports for tracking KPIs and accessing real-time cloud and SaaS cost and usage data.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Cloud analytics
- The Cloud Cost Management datasheet describes real-time cost and usage data, dashboards, reports, and detailed cost-driver analysis.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Cloud optimization
- The Cloud Cost Management datasheet describes identifying underused cloud instances for consolidation or retirement and spotting overutilized resources.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Customer data inputs
- A University of Alberta case study says time-tracking, service-management, and HR-management software feed data into ComSci.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Financial system integrations
- ComSci is described as integrating with corporate reporting systems including Oracle Hyperion, IBM Cognos, and SAP BusinessObjects.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Financial systems
- ComSci integrates with corporate reporting systems such as Oracle Hyperion, IBM Cognos, and SAP BusinessObjects.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The Cloud Cost Management datasheet describes ComSci as a solution for IT finance teams seeking to use cloud and SaaS consumption and investment data for business decision support.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Modules
- The University of Alberta case study identifies Service Costing, IT Planning, and Cloud Cost Management as ComSci modules.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Optimization
- ComSci can identify underutilized cloud instances for consolidation or retirement and help teams spot overutilized resources.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ComSci is an IT financial management solution for managing and communicating the cost, quality, and value IT delivers to an organization.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- ComSci offers visual, out-of-the-box analytics into product costs, unit costs, business-unit demand, and application total cost of ownership.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Risk control
- The cloud cost solution is described as helping reduce the risk of unauthorized cloud instances containing company or customer data.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Shared services
- ComSci can produce a bill of shared services covering IT and other internal services such as office space, administration, legal, marketing, and HR.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Showback and chargeback
- The cloud cost solution provides line-item detail to support showback and chargeback.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Support
- The University of Alberta case study describes ComSci Managed Services staff performing back-office tasks and meeting with the customer to recommend practices and process improvements.checked 3 Oct 2026
Money
- Application costs
- ComSci provides total cost of ownership by application to support application portfolio management and rationalization.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Cloud and SaaS costs
- ComSci consolidates cost and usage data from multiple cloud and SaaS providers for monitoring, reporting, and optimization.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Cloud cost management
- The Cloud Cost Management offering consolidates cost and usage data from multiple cloud and SaaS providers.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Service costing
- ComSci supports service costing, sub-ledger detail, and consumption-based chargeback.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Upland Software’s 2025 annual report says the company was incorporated in Delaware in 2010.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2010checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Upland lists its Austin headquarters at 900 S. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 300, Austin, Texas 78746.checked 2 Oct 2026
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